According to Aussie-Nintendo.com, the leading Nintendo news site for Australia, 3rd party titles for the Wii will be lacking big time in the features department. Apparently, Nintendo has left the game developers in the dark, therefore they are unable to develop games that can be unique to the system. These findings are contrary to what has already been announced and other details.

For example, Aussie-Nintendo claims that there will likely be no online-enabled games for the Wii at launch time. They name two Wii games as specific examples, Tony Hawk Downhill Jam and Call of Duty III. However, Cubed3.com, a major Nintendo news source claims that Call of Duth III will feature 16 online multiplayer mayhem. But multiplayer capabilities isn’t the only feature being left out of 1st gen Wii games…

The wii-mote speaker is said to be another feature that games will not immediately take advantage of. This speaker used to build sound depth to games, may only be utilized by Nintendo developed games and Red Steel maker Ubisoft. Even Pro-G, a UK gaming site, mentions a hands-on experience with Red Steel, stating that it’s a “first step” in what the Wii will offer.

The negative news surrounding the Nintendo Wii is few and far between, but hits close to home with avid fans. Consider what gamers are most excited about for the Wii and what’s been mentioned here. If Wii games are utilizing the Wii to it’s potential at launch, will we be left with a half-developed overhyped console? There is still time for Wii developers to fine tune their product, so hopefully we can all believe the hype.

During the Leipzig convention, there were several announcements related to Nintendo, but not what we were expecting. In addition to console developers there were also a number of game developers that made their pressence known and were nice enough to do some candid interviews. One such interview was between Capcom and Pro-G.uk, where the fate of the Resident Evil series and the Wii were discussed.

“Takeuchi also went all uncomfortable and apologetic when we asked him about Resident Evil Wii, saying he didn’t know if there would be one. Although when we put our puppy-dog eyes on, he did at least concede that there might be a teensy chance of seeing such a game,”

It’s been suggested by a number of sources that Takeuchi misunderstood the question. The upcoming Resident Evil 5 is slated to be released on the PS3 and Xbox360, not the Wii. Therefore, the chances of this title being released to the Nintendo system is unlikely and probably what Takeuchi thought he was being asked about.

There is still hope for a Resident Evil game for the Wii, we might just have to wait awhile after launch for it. Meanwhile, there are a few horror Wii games being discussed for launch status. One such  Wii horror title is Sadness, which we discussed back in July.

The latest Wii rumor is that there will be a strong following of N64 games ported to the Nintendo Wii. According to the gaming magazine Nintendo Dream in Japan, Shigeru Miyamoto suggested that Nintendo was considering revamping a number of their old platform games and adapting them to the next-gen wii.

At E3 we were introduced to a revamped Mario 64, which was obviously running at a higher frame rate. However, the real changes as with the rest of the Wii, is the way the games are controlled. Miyamoto suggests the idea that Nintendo is encouraging GameCube game developers to port titles as well.

“The machine is based on GC… We’ll be upgrading the development tools, but GameCube code can be used for the most part as is. In that sense, I believe that it would be good to remake GameCube games for Wii, and that some titles would become better with the change to the Wii remote controller.”

It’s still unclear as to how many of the old games will be ported to the Wii. In addition, whether these games will be standalone or through the Wii Online marketplace has yet to be determined.